I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.